IBM Security Identity and Access Assurance

Includes four IBM software products

• IBM Tivoli Identity Manager is a leading automated and policy-based user identity management solution. It helps effectively manage user accounts, access permissions and passwords throughout the IT environment.
• IBM Security Access Manage for Enterprise Single Sign-On simplifies, strengthens and tracks access. It integrates enterprise single sign-on with strong authentication, access workflow automation, fast user switching and audit reporting.
• IBM Tivoli Access Manager for e-business acts as the hub for authentication and authorization for web and other applications. It centralizes access management and makes it easier and more cost effective to deploy secure applications.
• IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager provides user-centric, federated single sign-on. Now you can securely share information between trusted partners. This software uses open standards for service oriented architecture (SOA) and web services deployments for distributed portal and mainframe environments.

Provides automated and policy-based user management

• Centralized authorization for web and other applications.
• Enterprise, web and federated single sign-on both within and between organizations, including cloud deployments.
• Identity and access support for social network applications and cloud-based applications and identities.
• Policy-based access control of business-critical applications, files and operating platforms.

Helps manage security and compliance

• Automates monitoring, investigating and reporting on user activity throughout the enterprise.
• Monitors privileged users to provide accountability for security compliance.
• Facilitates the understanding and remediation of the access posture for the enterprise.
• Supports a wide choice of strong authentication and authorization protocols.
• Integrates with stronger forms of authentication, such as smart cards, tokens and one-time passwords.